Based on a case study of two Moldovan regions, the paper challenges the favourable assessment of recently established peasant farms in a World Bank study by LERMAN et al. (1998). The main arguments in favour of a more critical view of the results of land privatisation and farm restructuring are...

Development's agrarian culture -- A plantation political context: of peasants, state and capital, 1838-1938 -- Forging nationals out of rural working peoples -- In the name of the 'small man': 'heavy manners' and the creation of new subjectivities -- Maneuvers of an embattled state: neoliberal...